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Over two weeks, Google drops a deluge of AI features we could care less about, making AI scraper agents, incorrect AI responses, and the legendarily laggy AR glasses. And Android exists.

Referenced Original Event (YouTube) Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley visionary, dies at 56, Juliana Kim, NPR The scene at 1:14 is from Total Recall (1990) My video on Microsoft’s controversial (and probably overly demonized) Recall feature Trinity College Dublin’s Douglas Leith’s analysis of Android and iOS telemetry First 8K Video From Space - NASA’s YouTube Pebble’s acquisition announcement Google buys out Fitbit Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries, Jon Porter, The Verge Google ‘not truthful,’ tried to ‘subvert’ court process by deleting evidence in monopoly case, judge rules, Ethan Baron, The Mercury News Google’s ex-CEO blames working from home for the company’s AI struggles: ‘Google decided that work-life balance was more important than winning’, Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune $5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial, Richard Lawler, The Verge Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine, Will Knight, WIRED Track Listing Outro: Khaim - Neon Lamp

YouTube Google returns with a wild music concert, the spooky implications of new AI programs, and the destruction of the human spirit! Follow Rogue Ren Twitch YouTube Mastodon (vt.social) Bluesky Takeways Google’s wacky guest musician for the preshow: Marc Rebillet Google announces an enhanced version of Google Lens and Gemini, capable of visual recognition, doxxing people, and spying through phones and glasses alike. Google announces Veo, a AI service designed to generate videos based on prompts. It’s not ready yet Google unveils a new system for detecting/watermarking AI generated content called SynthID. Unfortunately, the nefarious will reverse engineer what was added and remove it from generated content. Google Search now has a horribly inaccurate AI summarization field. PaliGemma, a new open-source machine vision model is announced. It’s not ready yet Android 15 exists… The Google Phone app gains the ability to intercept scam messages. Good for the unaware, but opens the floodgates to serious privacy ramifications. The service is opt-in. Gemma 2 is announced. It’s not ready yet Gemini becomes enhanced with Gems, a way to create personalized AIs for specific tasks or limited data sets. Only available for paying Gemini users and it’s not ready yet YouTube videos are now polluted with AI questionnaires. Referenced Preshow, feat. Marc Rebillet (edited) Original Event (edited) Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini for iPhone, iOS 18 Generative AI Tools - Bloomberg Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find | 404 Media (Archive.org) Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search Engines Taylor Swift nude deepfake goes viral on X, despite platform rules OpenAI’s Sora landing page Marques Brownlee’s Sora hot take, which is identical to what Winward said. Meredith Whittaker’s Twitter hot take on Pixel scam detection .dev domains, formerly owned by Google Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets Anonymous poop gifting site hacked, customers exposed Track Listing Post event discussion: Khaim - SSS (Remix) Outro: Khaim - Neon Lamp Bonus Content:

I helped my mom set up GrapheneOS on the Google Pixel Tablet. Are Android tablets ready now?

Samsung fully surrenders to Google’s iron grip on Android, announcing AI features to steal your data, allowing Google to run a long ad, a silent return to the Exynos chipset, cringe content creator cameos, and a ring they don’t know what to do with.